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Hey guys,

So I'm slowly learning 8th and I'm getting into the Dark Imperium, building up the models and getting them ready for priming. I'm having more fun than I would have expected with the Primaris, but I was wondering...

What kits are people adding on to make solid, tight-knit armies for the Primaris? More Hellblasters? Redemptors? Primaris Librarians? What are people picking up to expand on the Dark Imperium set?

I started with Dark Imperium's Primaris half. I got the "First Strike" starter to split with a friend, which is another 3 intercessors and 3 Reivers. I got a couple more Intercessors to finish the unit of 5 from the single-model "Getting Started" pack and a trade with a friend for one extra marine. Adding a box of Reivers, I made 5 with melee kit to match the First Strike Reivers for a unit of 8 and 5 with jump packs/carbines kit. Adding a Dreadnought and an Apothecary to that comes to just under 1500 points. It's pretty well-rounded, you can fit that into several formations (I run Battalion and Vanguard) and I like that it's fully Primaris. My strategy isn't ideal, in the end I only really ended up saving on getting another Intercessors box or another character, but I thought that my path might help offer some insight.

Just buy all the hellblasters.

All
Of
Them.

Jambles - I seem to be following a similar path! I went and got the 'Getting Started' set too, but realized that you can't make a squad of 3 Reivers, so I'll probably pick up a box of them. I'm seeing good things about them as a unit, so making two small units, or at least one full 10-man should be good. I also got a Dreadnought, Apothecary, Chaplain, and Librarian, so my choices for HQ should be nice and varied.

I was thinking about getting another squad of Hellblasters instead of the Intercessors to fill out the army. I don't really see myself getting one of those big Repulsor tanks, but I'd happily get a second Dreadnought!

Know No Fear is a good second buy if you want a lot of forces. See if you can split the contents with someone. You basically get the Dark Imperium stuff minus the small characters and one squad of Intercessors.

On a note for First Strike: Overall the contents are roughly 1/2 of the cost of the individual "easy build" sets, but that's if you use the entire contents of the box. If you have some use for the 3 Intercessors and someone willing to take the DG models, then it's a good buy. Otherwise a box of actual Reivers is cheaper in the long run.

I think that a good starting point is the Librarian (The same price as the regular Libby for some reason, awesome), hellblasters, and a repulsor for them to ride in. The hardest thing for primaris (Other than multi-wound weapons) is anti-tank. An 8 man squad of hellblasters with a captain and an ancient riding in a double las repulsor is a great firebase to build the rest of your list around. Plus there's that great anniversary captain in mk x armour with the plasma pistol and power fist is a great addition to the force.

The Lieutenants are awesome.

I bought a box of intercessors, so I can pad the intercessor squads out to two 10 man squads. then I'll proably buy some hellblasters

 DarkElfZohan wrote:
I think that a good starting point is the Librarian (The same price as the regular Libby for some reason, awesome), hellblasters, and a repulsor for them to ride in. The hardest thing for primaris (Other than multi-wound weapons) is anti-tank. An 8 man squad of hellblasters with a captain and an ancient riding in a double las repulsor is a great firebase to build the rest of your list around. Plus there's that great anniversary captain in mk x armour with the plasma pistol and power fist is a great addition to the force.

Yeah, I'm noticing that anti-tank seems to be the trouble, but anti-horde is also a problem for Primaris-only forces. It's like, unless you're going up against other Marines, you're probably going to have some trouble.

How do you get the anniversary captain?

drbored wrote:

 DarkElfZohan wrote:
I think that a good starting point is the Librarian (The same price as the regular Libby for some reason, awesome), hellblasters, and a repulsor for them to ride in. The hardest thing for primaris (Other than multi-wound weapons) is anti-tank. An 8 man squad of hellblasters with a captain and an ancient riding in a double las repulsor is a great firebase to build the rest of your list around. Plus there's that great anniversary captain in mk x armour with the plasma pistol and power fist is a great addition to the force.

Yeah, I'm noticing that anti-tank seems to be the trouble, but anti-horde is also a problem for Primaris-only forces. It's like, unless you're going up against other Marines, you're probably going to have some trouble.

Anti Horde is NOT a problem. Between dakka dread,s dakka repulsors, and agressors, primaris marines have some pretty scary anti horde.

For my primaris I traded the death guard stuff for a 2nd set of primaris marines, thhough I mostly just use the 2nd set of hellblasters. I added in Guilliman, 2 repulsors, a librarian, and 2 redemptor dreadnaughts. This list has very few models but plenty of shooting and with the reroll it's shooting is devastating, a psycher, and plenty of assault capabilities.

I think at this point I'm going to start with the Dark Imperium, a Redemptor Dreadnought, and a Librarian and see how that does me.

I got a Chaplain and an Apothecary that I'll play around with, but it'll probably be small point games until I get 8th down. I can see myself getting another couple 5-mans of Hellblasters and maybe a box of Reivers to bring the army closer to 75 points, and then a Repulsor and another Redemptor up to 100.